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This means some players are taking a bigger or smaller hit from this year's pay cut than they would if they were paid equal amounts in each year of their contract. Take Carlton's classy midfielder Jack Martin. Structuring the contract this way — in what's known as a front-loaded deal — made it easier for Carlton to ensure no other club would select Martin in the draft, and they would get their player.
So Martin now finds himself, in relative terms, dudded by a pay cut that affects the most lucrative year of his contract. Above: Jack Martin's contract is front-loaded — and he's in his first year. GWS spearhead Jeremy Cameron is in the final year of a heavily back-loaded contract. Essentially, by agreeing to move money around he helped the club stay under the salary cap. But now he's reached the year when he was finally supposed to earn the money that had been voluntarily deferred in the preceding four years — only to find it is the year of the coronavirus pay cuts.
This the fault of a bat in Wuhan not Cameron or anyone at the Giants. Which brings us to one of the most famous deals in AFL history. So the pay cut has hit big this year. Marlion Pickett has a special place in footy folklore. It was also his AFL debut. Pickett has four kids, moved interstate from Perth and is still on about the lowest contract level for a player.
Richmond is eager to re-contract him on significantly better terms but, for the moment, he is on a base rookie contract, having been drafted in the middle of last year.
Pickett will be one of the players eligible for financial help from the AFL under a hardship fund agreed to with the players' union. In the short term, it means the players all lose at least a quarter of what they would have been on this year — that is, they lose at least half of their pay from just over half of the year's worth of monthly pay cheques. You don't have to, and compared with being stood down or losing your job altogether, a pay cut of this size, while no footy is being played, would seem a reasonable sacrifice.
What it does is show the depth of the pain in the AFL right now and how much money has disappeared out of the game because of the pandemic. And the pay cuts are not quarantined popular word at the moment to this year but are likely to be felt next year, too. Yes, no one is talking about it yet because so much effort is concentrated on getting some form of a season still played this year.
And, until we know if we get back to playing this year, clubs can't get to making firm decisions on next year. But take it as read that player contracts for next year will have to be revisited too. The revenues lost to the game already will not be limited to this season.
Next year is likely to again see a drop in revenue from lost sponsors, lost corporate packages at games and an expected drop-off in membership as unemployment rises and people examine their discretionary spend this year.
That continued damage to revenue into next year will see the AFL and the AFLPA enter discussions again at the end of the year once they have a clearer financial picture for next year.
Player wages are not the only thing under review, so too is the overall number of players on club lists. The players you've just become used to watching might not be there any more. Clubs have at least 44 players on their lists and some have more.
The push from the AFL is to cut the number of players on club lists to And that is just the players. That cannot be done without clubs being forced to get rid of, or cut the wages of, assistant coaches, recruiters, medical staff, welfare staff and administration staff.
Most of these things won't mean a lot to fans because they don't see the people — but the cuts will hurt. There are some who would argue you won't know the difference, that there has been too much fat in football and too many coaches and allied staff on the fringes. They would also argue if you have a dozen fewer players on lists you don't need as many coaches.
It may be that skills deteriorate — if you have fewer people working with players to get better then, logically, the players won't do as well as they might have. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
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